Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I been here a long time . |
| 2 | Guido elaborated , ‘ I 'm afraid I 'm still a long way from forgiving your brother for his irresponsible behaviour . ’ |
| 3 | A spokesman for insurance company Mondial explains : ‘ It can cost a lot of money if people have an accident on the piste , which is often a long way from a medical centre . ’ |
| 4 | The minutes of the last meeting , the twentieth , the nineteenth of October , which is quite a long time ago , did anyone have any particular comments ? |
| 5 | Er mainly the proposal and then everybody came back on the sixth which is quite a long break in Christmas but we do need that break till we organize ourselves after Christmas |
| 6 | Which is quite a long time . |
| 7 | What we 've done , is we 've set up an answer phone to pick up these calls after 13 seconds , after 13 rings sorry , about 30 seconds , which is quite a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll just put it here , ’ he said , taking it to a table which was just a long low slab of something transparent . |
| 9 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 10 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 11 | Now I found that , you see , cos I passed my eleven plus and I lived in Hampshire and the grammar school was Hampshire Grammar School for Girls , which was quite a long way away from where I lived and it would have entailed a bus and the train and I and there was only me that passed and I , I did n't wan na do it . |
| 12 | Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on . |
| 13 | Everything large or furry has been shot and eaten or skinned , or if it has n't been , it runs away while you 're still a long way off , which makes it rather difficult to film . |
| 14 | ‘ You were away a long time , ’ said Pip . |
| 15 | She was away a long time . |
| 16 | But , unfortunately , I believe we are quite a long way off that outcome at present . |
| 17 | We are still a long way from moving from ‘ the polluted pay ’ to ‘ the polluters pay ’ principle . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're still a long way from Herr Goodenache . ’ |
| 19 | So in a way I welcome the fact that these figures bear a little more relationship to the real situation er than last year 's did , but we 're still a long way short of knowing exactly what 's going on . |
| 20 | It may not be ready in time , I told her , there 's still a long way to go . |
| 21 | There 's still a long way to go , but for both the major parties in the UK , computer campaigning in the constituencies is now widespread . |
| 22 | There 's still a long way to go . |
| 23 | Even getting it all set up to get you this far may have taxed your fortune to the limit already and there 's still a long way to go . |
| 24 | They say that there 's still a long way to go before the transformation is complete , but there is no doubt that Wallingford is coming out — tops ! |
| 25 | So for Swindon there 's still a long way to go . |
| 26 | This was how it looked two years ago — now there 's more height in the garden , but there 's still a long way to go . |
| 27 | Helen Atkins , the Council 's solicitor dealing with the issue , says the Authority has to act on the complaints it received over the summer , but admits there 's still a long way to go . |
| 28 | It is an ambition of hers , but she reckons there 's still a long way to go . |
| 29 | There is also a long tradition of migration , mostly to the United States , as people seek a better life and an escape from poverty and land hunger . |
| 30 | There is also a long standing and somewhat unique tendency in this country to treat front and back gardens as separate entities , the former being for parking and access , the back for everything else . |